"Wayne Allewelt" <wallewelt@mai-aec.com> wrote:
:> -----Original Message-----
:> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net [mailto:owner-dakota-
:> truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of jon@dakota-truck.net
:>
:> : IIRC, they have sniper ones you can buy but they're cost prohibitive.
:> : I've got a Pirhana STS 2k3 tournament gun that's really nice. I just
:> : need to rebuild if before the BBQ and get some CO2. I think it'd be
:> : really cool if we could set this up this year. The only issue I can
:> : think of would be running out of CO2, but my tank is large enough where
:> : it'll last a solid 8 hours of playtime easily so I guess I'm good.
: : I wonder if you could improve accuracy with more pressure and a longer
: : barrel while keeping a sane muzzle velocity? hmmm...
: : ASIDE: most barrels are rifled, but you're looking at a 68cal. sphere
: : with a seam in at at only about 1800'/sec (all IIRC, I don't play
: : often), so you get lots of wander beyond 25yds, and loose power very
: : quickly.
: You can turn any marker into a sniper marker.
: Once the barrel length starts to get over 20" you start to lose accuracy.
: I have a 16" smart parts barrel on mine and it is pretty damn accurate.
I have absolutely zero paintball experience, so its all new to me -
sorry for the newbie questions. :-) Has anyone bothered to do accuracy
testing like they do for actual firearms? (i.e. a particular marker will
shoot X" groups at Y yards off a bench, etc.) I certainly haven't seen any
data like that published in the small amount of research I have done so
far. Or are they too innacurate to bother with things like that? I've
seen a couple of matches on TV, and it seemed to me like everybody basically
took a "spray and pray" approach - lots and lots of spare ammo with
paintballs flying everywhere. (Myself, I think I'd prefer a more surgical
approach, similar to what I would do in "real life" if confronted
with a group of determined adversaries in a life and death situation -
it would be calculated and deliberate. IMHO, if the matches I saw
on TV were an accurate representation of the sport in general, I think it
could probably do with some ammo limitation rules.) :-) Anyhoo, now I'm
going off topic in an off topic post - off topic squared...
: Most
: of the barrels sold out there are port rifled not internally rifle like a
: real gun. One company that I know of makes an internally rifled barrel but I
: heard that its accuracy goes to hell once you have a paintball break in it,
: but I been told that it is far more accurate than just a barrel with the
: ports, as long as you don't break any balls. Actually any of the barrels out
: there accuracy goes to hell once a paintball breaks inside them.
Is that the "flatline" barrel I have seen referenced, or something
different? Seems like I heard the "flatline" barrel is supposed to
spin the painball, but it spins it backwards, not like a rifle would,
which is supposed to flatten out the trajectory and give additional
distance and accuracy. Seems like I heard they do it with a curved
barrel though as opposed to anything internal, so this may be something
different.
: The velocity limit out of the barrel is 180'/sec as that is what most
: paintball fields limit the velocity to.
Just curious - do you know how they enforce/determine this? (Chronometer?)
Or perhaps there is a time/distance rule of thumb that can be applied?
--
-Jon-
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